Reproducing pairs and Gabor systems at critical density

Abstract

We use the concept of reproducing pairs to study Gabor systems at critical density. First, we present a generalization of the Balian–Low theorem to the reproducing pairs setting. Then, we prove our main result that there exists a reproducing partner for the Gabor system of integer time-frequency shifts of the Gaussian. In other words, the coefficients for this Gabor expansion of a square integrable function can be calculated using inner products with an unstructured family of vectors in L2(R). This solves one of the last few open questions for this system.